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Owned - Verb - to own something, i.e Adelaide United were totally owned by Melbourne Victory.
The navy half of Melbourne made it 10 wins in a row against their bitter rivals Adelaide at Etihad on Friday night. Adelaide got off to the best possible start, scoring in the first minute when defender Ian Fyfe headed home from a set piece. But it was all down hill from there for the visitors.
Matthew Leckie was hacked out of the game via a horrible Surat Sukha tackle before Robbie Kruse scored his fourth goal in as many games. Kruse has not only shot up the goal scoring charts of late, he has also gone to number one on most peoples 'love to punch that bloke in the mouth list' like a bullet. Carlos Hernandez finished off the Reds with another dazzling display at Etihad and to be fair Victory should have won by more.
The Football Sack boys lapped up the historic double header in style at the SFS in a corporate box - "Cuz that's how we roll now" said Matt Greenlaw, looking off into the distance, cigar and whiskey in hand.
The first game was BlingFC vs Brisbane and after the Sky Blues maiden win of the season last week the bookies (Betfair.com.au) interestingly saw fit to install them favorites over Brisbane who had only lost one game so far this season.
The Roar scored inside ten minutes (Luke Devere) and it looked as easy as picking notes from ye olde money tree until Bling 'keeper Necevski went route one and the Roars defense was caught napping. Jar Jar Binks lookalike Alex Brosque popped one over Theoklitos and the bookies got away with another one.
The second game saw what looked to be 11 kids dress up for Halloween in Perth Glory kits and afforded the chance to play the Central Coast Mariners. The Mariners tricked their young opponents for the first half an hour before treating them to a five goal spanking that will have the Glory sick in the stomach for days to come. Perth are in more trouble than Charlie Sheen at the moment and are having a damn sure less fun too. Ferguson needs to make changes - and quickly, The Mariners on the other hand were clinical. The surprise of the game was that there was only one yellow card between these two 'physical' (yep - thuggish) teams.
Sunday saw the long awaited debut of the Port Macquarie Regional Stadium and didn't it put on a show for the fans. Grassy hills that would have lovers of the SCG circa 1984 in heaven, complete with Porta-loos at each end. The action on the pitch was decent, Nick Kalmar scored a roundhouse bicycle kick that looked straight out of the FIFA 11 PlayStation handbook. Jets signing Francis Jeffers was in the stands to watch his first A-league game and would have been licking his lips at the prospect of showing his new teammates the basic skill of putting the ball into the net.
The Robbie Middleby led Fury took on the Gold coast at Dairy Farmers Stadium to wrap up the weekend in front of a healthy crowd of over 7,000.
Traore and Djulbic scored for Gold Coast whilst Hughes scored for the Fury. But lets cut to the chase - we only watch the Fury to see Franz Straka, so the game was missing something before it started. The game was very attacking and both coaches made attacking changes and should be applauded for it. Davis Williams for me is the most exciting prospect in the A-league behind Leckie. Williams is thriving in this attacking formation and should be picked in Osieks next squad. The other positive to come out of the game was Glen Moss' ability to save goals, a concept that seemed foreign to him in his time with Melbourne.
Hero of the Week
Robbie Kruse, Love him or hate him, thats 4 in 4 weeks from the rodent looking one, and with the national coach looking on, who knows.
Villain of the Week
Surat Sukha, A horrible tackle on Matthew Leckie had a nation gasping and a referee calling for a corner to be taken. (The Linesman was 7 meters away - what was he watching?!)